In 1977, Ford Motors introduced FMEA to address the potential problems in the R&D and the early
stage of production and published the Potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Handbook in 1984 to
promote the method. Later on the automobile manufacturers in America also introduced the FMEA into the
management of suppliers, and took it as a key check issue. Some researches on FMEA have been carried out by
previous researchers but still a lot of applied research in the above field is required so as to explore the
successful utilizations of the FMEA technique in the area of manufacturing and design